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Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong hailed the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang for its achievements fighting saltwater intrusion when he was on a working visit to the locality on March 16.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong ordered taking prompt and drastic actions to fight drought and saline intrusion while visiting the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang on March 16.

The Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang is undertaking measures to protect 112,000 hectares of fruit trees and rice from saltwater intrusion.

The northern Lang Son and southern Tien Giang provinces aim to have more communes recognised as new-style rural areas in 2016-2020.

Tien Giang province has made efforts over the last five years to facilitate the local residents’ access to electricity to realise the national target programme on building new-style rural areas.

The Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang on December 25 granted Global Good Agriculture Practices (GlobalGAP) certificate to three fruit production establishments in the locality.

Domestic waterways play a critical role in passenger and cargo transport in the Mekong Delta, but the rate of accidents remains at a high level due to lack of attention from local and related authorit

A series of transport projects with total investment amounting to trillions of dong are near completion in the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang.

Tien Giang province has expanded the growing area of pineapples in Tan Phuoc district to 16,000 hectares, and is expecting to produce over 287,000 tonnes for domestic consumption and export.